Marketing-related resources and radical innovativeness in family and non-family firms: A configurational approach

Jeffrey G. Covin, Fabian Eggers, Sascha Kraus, Cheng-Feng Cheng and Man-Ling Chang

Journal of Business Research, 2016, vol. 69, issue 12, 5620-5627

Abstract: Family (FFs) and non-family firms (NFFs) are increasingly shown to be distinct in their operations, including their marketing-related resources, decisions, and actions pertaining to innovation. The current research explores the possibility that while some drivers of innovativeness – radical innovativeness, in particular – may be common to both family and NFFs, how these drivers combine to produce radical innovativeness may not always be the same for these two firm types. Data from 1671 firms operating in four countries were analyzed using fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis. Results reveal six configurations of behavioral proclivities and/or resources that predict radical innovativeness, including two that are unique to FFs, three that are unique to NFFs, and one that is common to both firm types.

Keywords: Innovation; Innovativeness; Radical; Family; Non-family; Configurational (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2016.03.069

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